THE Ain't Seen Nothing Yet's leadership in Gauteng this week had many unsavoury things to say about its own baby, the Gautrain, which launched its eagerly awaited Rosebank-Hatfield route to much fanfare a few days ago.

Guluva had all along thought the Gautrain would not only significantly change the face of the country's public transport system when it was mooted by the Gauteng provincial government several years ago, but that it would also showcase to sceptics Mzansi's brilliant engineering innovation.

In an indirect onslaught on the provincial government, Dumisa Ntuli, the ruling party's fiery provincial spin doctor, disparagingly referred to the sleek, fast, luxurious and state-of-the-art train as an "elitist" mode of transport.

"It remains an indictment of the government that this mode of transport largely attracts high-income commuters," Ntuli lamented in the same statement in which he again dissed the Gauteng government and the government-aligned SA National Roads Agency for introducing unaffordable tolling tariffs on the province's newly revamped freeways. Ntuli went on to label the system a "money-making scheme".

Guluva cannot get it. The last time he checked, the Ain't Seen Nothing Yet was the ruling party under whose watch these decisions were taken in Gauteng. Unless, of course, the party has lost the will to govern and wants to switch roles with the official opposition instead.

But one thing it definitely cannot be is a player and referee at the same time.

Juju in a jam

It would appear that the Ratanang Family Trust, which has, among other things, shares in On-Point Engineering in Limpopo, has opened many doors for the Woodwork Boy, aka Juju, in the business world.

Everything he touches nowadays turns into gold, it would seem.

With On-Point Engineering, which has a contract with the Limpopo department of roads and transport to design, manage and run projects, Juju says he is not involved in its day-to-day business activities or the issuing of tenders. All he or his family trust does, he says, is to queue up like everybody else "when dividends are paid".

This reminded Guluva of politically connected Sandile Zungu's "money for jam" statement when a simple exchange of papers turned Imperial Crown Trading, a total newcomer in the mining industry in which he and others have shares, into an R800million mining empire overnight, making him and others instant multi-millionaires.

But Guluva digresses.

He hears on the grapevine that a Juju clothing label is now on the cards. There is also talk of establishing Juju's Jam and Juju's Just Juice brands in Limpopo and Juju's Ginger Ale in Gauteng.

While surfing the Internet Guluva came across a company called Malema Wood Work, the address of which is listed as Stand 186, Hebron, Gauteng.

The company - listed under "manufacturing industries, Nec, Nsk", whatever that means - does not have a website or an e-mail address yet, but Guluva is confident it won't be long before the Wood Work Boy, or the Ratanang Family Trust at least, joins the queue when Malema Wood Work's divi-dends are paid.

While the likes of Cosatu's Vavi and SACP's Blade are moaning about tenderpreneurs, political hyenas, predators and demagogues, the Woodwork Boy is quietly and systematically carving a niche for himself out there.

E-mail Guluva on thatha.guluva@gmail.com.